Blade Runner 2049 and the Hard Problem of Reality

Denis Villeneuve’s critically acclaimed sequel to the 1982 Ridley Scott Classic is officially a box-office disaster. (Apparently you have to rake in a half a billion these days for a big movie to be considered a success.)

But don’t worry. That won’t slow us down in spending a full GEEKOUT episode of the World Transformed exploring the many dimension of this bleak and fascinating vision of the future.